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“The defendant and the other man were stood 10 feet away from him. The other man shouted, ‘Your son is dead, you won’t have a son. I will kick in your door. Don’t think I won’t. He pulled out a stun gun and pointed it at him through the kitchen window. He said, ‘I will shoot you. Don’t think it won’t reach you. Tell your son to get round to your house'.

“The victim was terrified. He called his son and put him on loud speaker. The man said, ‘Get round to see me. I am going to take out your dad’.”

The court heard the men left but armed police arrived and tracked down the car. They found the stun gun and cartridge inside. It was examined and found to be a working stun gun. A jacket containing the defendant’s DNA was discovered in the footwell.

Recorder Julian Taylor told Grocott: “I accept you were not the one in physical possession of the stun gun and you did not say anything. You were there as back-up. You went round with someone we do not know the identity of in pursuit of a debt. This was an unpleasant incident. This sort of behaviour must not be tolerated. It must have been a very upsetting and frightening experience.”